The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 7
After that, by the power of the wonderful wand she summoned a cricket, and taught him this greeting:
Who acts: messenger · What happens: summon, teach · To what, where: cricket, greeting, bee
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 summoned | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 that | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 power | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 power | det |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 summoned | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wand | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wand | det |
| 9 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wand | amod |
| 10 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 power | nmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 summoned | nsubj |
| 12 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cricket | det |
| 14 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 summoned | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taught | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 taught | cc |
| 17 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 summoned | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taught | obj |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 greeting | det |
| 20 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taught | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | messenger | a cricket | after that | by the power of the wonderful wand | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cricket=Recipient | ||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | messenger not said here | this greeting | bee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient greeting=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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